Rappaccini's Daughter: American Short Story Coll

Adapted from master storyteller Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1844 short story, "Rappaccini's Daughter" (1980) is a mesmerizing fable about what happens when a young college student falls in love with the beautiful daughter of an unscrupulous botanist. Obsessed with poisonous flowers, the botanist has used his daughter as a guinea pig, rendering her immune to poisons but toxic to other human beings. Ensconced in her mystical gardens, the daughter remains a temptation that the young man cannot resist until it is too late. The bewitching saga stars Kristoffer Tabori and Kathleen Beller.